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Genre
Action Historical Josei Romance
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Ancient China Assassins Betrayal Female Protagonist Genius Protagonist Politics Reincarnation Revenge Royalty Scheming Second Chance Time Skip
Description
Bathed in the love of her imperial family and her husband, Yun Shang was a spoiled princess and the envy of many at the Royal Court. Her life had been perfect right up till the moment when she realized that everything was just a sham, a ruse designed by the Empress to ruin Yun Shang. After enduring bitter treachery and being poisoned, Yun Shang died with a broken heart and an unfulfilled vow of vengeance. As if God was answering her final request, Yun Shang found herself reborn like an immortal phoenix. She was eight again, and all her memories from her previous life remained intact. The others, however, did not remember the events leading up to her death. Determined not to repeat her mistakes, Yun Shang planned to rain hellfire onto the treacherous, backstabbing villains for all the heart-wrenching pain they had once inflicted upon her. He was the handsome and smart prince of the Ning, who was revered as a battle-hardened general that knew no match in the world. He had thought he wouldn't settle for anyone until she showed up. A seemingly innocent young princess and a gorgeous prince. Where would their relationship lead them? __________________
Spoiler and Review by greenteabiat
The story is your typical rebirth novel wherein MC is betrayed by her loved ones: her husband, her half-sister, her known mother, her confidants and servants. It somewhat resembles "Chongfei Manual" except there's not much for the fluffy romance.
On MC's rebirth she went on a road of vengeance for her previous self and her baby and a vow to never fall in love. Her journey started when she came back as her eight year old self.
ML is her nominal uncle, that was once adopted by the previous emperor and is his father's (current emperor) younger brother who was older by 13 years to her.
ML is known as the God of war in their country and had once planned to take the throne away for himself but gave up later on. The reason why he wanted the throne was because he found life boring and redundant and is seeking for something to compell his emptiness but found peace and serenity by MC's side.
The story focuses more on the court and harem's intrigues and nations conflict. It's a slow romance because although the MC felt something for the ML she doesn't recognize it for her fear of being hurt and abandoned again just like her last life =========== LongReview and Spoiler by The Lazy Slu
the romance developed quite nicely. It wasn't fast, just right. The ML is so cute! OMG!
Spoiler
The ML is a fearsome battle prince, and the adopted brother of the Emperor (FL's father). This made him her uncle, but not by blood. Now, there was this time the Emperor played matchmaker and tried to match FL to this Wang guy (ML's "best friend"). Thankfully, FL prepared ahead of time and told her father a monk divined her that she should not marry until she's 18 (she's currently 15). ML was 27.
While walking back home, ML was all like:
"Three more years, three more years..." Then, he turned to his attendant and asked. "How old am I this year?"
Attendant replied 27. ML began sulking. 'In three years, I'll be 30. Wouldn't I be considered old by then?'
HAHAHAHAHAHA ======
I find the story rather interesting, and the development nice.
At the start, the FL only tries to counter whatever hateful plans the scheming people around her are throwing at her; but later on, she begins initiating the schemes herself (mostly because she'd had enough of it already and wanted to go on the offensive side too).
Anyway, I'd also like to iterate Eclat123's review in that yes, I also find the development and dynamics of the characters good. Borrowing his/her words:
Spoiler
"One of the most interesting character development was on the empress. She was always depicted as an antagonist character with strong backings that will do everything in her power to secure her position, including harrassing FL. It was later explained, after she found out that she is infertile and was on her weakest moment, that she always longs for the emperor's love and had been questioning herself over and over again why he had never been effectionate enough though she always strives to be the perfect empress figure. It showed us how she's actually a human with breaking points and emotions, not just some one-way programmed characters." -Eclat123
Not just the Empress, I also find the development of one of the "supporting antagonists"/"minor antagonist" rather impressive too:
Spoiler
There is this girl named Meng (I forgot her family name) who was one of FL's attendants but also turned out to be the Empress' spy. She tried to do a lot of evil things to FL for the Empress, including one of which almost succeeding (the thing about the poison on FL's bath water). Anyhow, later, she became crippled, making her useless to the Empress instead. Because of this, she feared she'll lose her life because she was no longer useful. So, she "turned into a new leaf" (maybe, hehehe) and defected back to the FL, telling the FL of the Empress' plans as well as her spies.
Now, there's a reason for the quote-unquote of "turned into a new leaf" in that, it is still uncertified whether she's really on team FL's side now, as she is the type who is very familiar of the dog-eat-dog world and so only trusts herself and do things that are advantageous to her. FL knows of this too. Now, while some of you might think of that as bad, I beg to differ. Story-wise, I think this just goes to show how complex her character is... well, at least far above the superficial purely-antagonistic only character. You know she was evil, but the author also told us why... as well as gave her a second chance and a leeway for her character to grow. This also made her relationship with FL rather dynamic, and interesting. ___________ Link https://lightnovelgo.com/light-novel-online/eight-year-old-princess-phoenix-reborn
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